Discus age?

[Baygon]

Hi folks I wonder if any experts can help me determine the age of this discus that is about 3" in long. (btw based on photo is it healthy?)

Regards,
B

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[adammak47]

Sorry, 100% not healthy. Discus should not be black. Very bad condition.

[fdlacy]

Others with more experience may chime in, but he looks darker in color than he should be and somewhat stunted. Hard to tell in pictures, but I would guess this fish is 6-8 months of age, but nowhere near where it should be in size.

Darren

[Aznman1]

No it's in bad shape and really dark. Discus shouldn't be dark like that. It's so sad to see discus in such bad shape

[Teshi]

I recommend popping over to the Disease/sick forum for a bit of help with this poor guy. Please don't forget to fill out the questionnaire. It will give people information needed to help you get happy healthy discus!

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/forumd...and-Medication

[Skip]

I recommend popping over to the Disease/sick forum for a bit of help with this poor guy. Please don't forget to fill out the questionnaire. It will give people information needed to help you get happy healthy discus!

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/forumd...and-Medication

they already did.. a few days ago
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showth...ht=#post930981

[Teshi]

OH wow... didn't see that it was the same fish. I hope it is getting better :/

[Eddie]

Hi folks I wonder if any experts can help me determine the age of this discus that is about 3" in long. (btw based on photo is it healthy?)

Regards,
B

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Its really difficult to tell the age of a fish when it is unhealthy. Sometimes eye size to body ratio can be a good method for estimating age but when a fish has been malnourished or kept in poor conditions, the eyes appear very large due to the fish being thin and sunken in. I'd estimate at least 7 months and anything after that.

[John_Nicholson]

Hard to say but my best guess on the age is about 2 weeks prior to death. Good luck with it but it is in really bad health.

-john

[fdlacy]

Hard to say but my best guess on the age is about 2 weeks prior to death. Good luck with it but it is in really bad health.

-john

Reverse aging. That's creative, probably more accurate in some cases.

Darren

[Baygon]

Hard to say but my best guess on the age is about 2 weeks prior to death. Good luck with it but it is in really bad health.

-john

The fish was half dead when I got it from LFS and I am doing all my best to save its life with all the resources I can get at LFS.

From 1st week that it was not eating until now (3rd week) it is eating, swimming normally (sometimes chase after my other guppy) , good feces, and comes to me when I show up with foods. I believe I am somehow improving the fish's health.

On one exception on the color, the Color was COMPLETELY DARK right when I purchased it and now some colors came back.

Does anyone has a pic of how this discus should looks like "normally" in terms of color?


Regards,
B

[Eddie]

Hard to say without knowing the actual type. What was it sold as?

[John_Nicholson]

My guess is some sort of a turq. Here is a real old pic of a red turq.



I was not trying to be mean but I will never understand why people buy sick fish. For the money you spent on that fish + meds you could have bought a healthy fish instead of one that will probably never amount to much.

Good luck.

-john

[Baygon]

Hard to say without knowing the actual type. What was it sold as?

Well the LFS owner doesn't know...it was sold as "discus fish". The owner bought the discus from a US supplier to have them shipped to Panama. Apparently all the other discus the owner bought died a week ago...he said he has no idea the supplier would ship him bad fishes...

Perhaps there is still hope on my little discus?


Regards,
B

[Eddie]

I'd say that picture John posted would be similar. Maybe not as dark as it is in spawning/breeding color.